Triton Track & Field Stadium will be the site for the 21st annual Cal-Nevada Championships this Friday and Saturday, April 4-5. This marks the second straight year that UCSD has hosted the meet. A packed field of competitors from NCAA Divisions I, II and III, as well as the NAIA, will converge on North Campus. The UCSD men finished seventh a year ago as Sacramento State took the top spot, and the Triton women were 10th in a group headed by San Diego State.

The Cal-Nevada Championships will begin on Friday, April 4 at 12 p.m. with the men's hammer throw final (west field). In the stadium, the women's pole vault and long jump (east pit) will begin at 1:30 p.m., with track events starting at 1:15 p.m. with the women's 100 hurdles (prelim). Friday's events will conclude at 6 p.m. with the men's 10000 meter final. The meet will continue on Saturday, April 5 at 11 a.m. with the women's hammer final (west field), the men's high jump final (stadium) and the women's triple jump final (east pit). Track events start at 2 p.m. with the women's 4x100 relay. Saturdays events will conclude at 4:35 p.m. with the men's 4x400 relay, with the awards ceremony following soon after at 4:45 p.m.

TICKET PRICES Admission this Friday and Saturday is $10 for adults, and $5 for seniors 65 and up, children 8 and older and visiting students with identification. The meet is free to attend for UCSD students with identification, and children 7 and younger. Parking on campus is free on Saturday, but parking is limited at the track facility, and will be limited this Saturday in general due to Triton Day. Spectators are encouraged to use the Hopkins Parking Structure behind RIMAC Arena. It is strongly recommended that spectators do purchase a parking permit on Friday, with pay stations located throughout the Hopkins structure. Please refer to the parking map located here.

THE COMPETITIONThe UCSD track and field teams will be competing against more than 20 different schools from both California and Nevada. UCSD will be up against Sacramento State, UNLV, Long Beach State, UC Riverside, Cal State L.A., Cal State Fullerton, Cal Poly Pomona, San Diego State, Pomona-Pitzer, UC Santa Barbara, Cal Poly, Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, Cal State San Marcos, Whittier, Azusa Pacific, USC, Point Loma, Pepperdine, Cal Lutheran, Loyola Marymount, Caltech, UC Irvine, Occidental, Soka, University of San Diego, Westmont, Cal State Stanislaus, La Verne, Academy of Art, Redlands, Cal State Bakersfield, The Master's, Cal State East Bay, California Baptist, Chapman, Cal State Dominguez Hills and Concordia Irvine.

SCORING AND RESULTSThe scoring on Friday and Saturday will be the nine-places format, meaning 10-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 for the finishes, with awards going to the top three finishers in each event. The team championship will be determined by the composite team scores. Live results are available at Flash Results West. Complete results will be posted at UCSDtritons.com on both Friday and Saturday night.

LAST TIME OUT UCSD prepped for the Cal-Nevada Championships by running, jumping and throwing at the 36th Annual Aztec Invitational last Friday and Saturday across town at San Diego State. Sabrina Pimentel (third/800/2:13.16), Nash Howe (sixth/javelin/228'5"), Haley Libuit (sixth/javelin/135'11") and Clint Rosser (second/pole vault/15'9.75") hit NCAA provisional qualifying marks at the event. Among the other highlights was a fourth-place finish by Janay Pierce in the 100 (12.12), with the junior also anchoring a 4x100 relay that included Amy Heins, Erica Anunwah and Kristin Sato, to a third-place finish in 47.76.

NCAA QUALIFIERSA group of nine Triton track and field athletes have already hit NCAA qualifying marks this season. Nash Howe stands alone as the only automatic qualifier for the NCAA Championships so far, throwing a distance of 229'3" in the javelin at the San Diego Collegiate Challenge (3/15). Sabrina Pimentel (800/2:13.16) earned her provisional at the Aztec Invitational, with Haley Libuit (javelin/135'11") improving her mark at that same meet. Chantia Justice and Kristin Sato each qualified provisionally for the NCAA Championships in the triple jump, with both Justice and Sato jumping a distance of 39'1" at the San Diego Collegiate Challenge. At the same meet, pole vaulter Clint Rosser hit his provisional qualifying mark of 15'11". At the All-Cal Championships (3/8) Carlos Bojorquez (1500/3:51.44) and Mario Flores (3000 steeplechase/9:23.16) earned provisional qualifying marks. Rounding out the list is Anthony Capitulo (javelin), who threw a distance of 197'6" in his Triton debut at the Rossi Relays (2/22).

WOMEN FIRST FOR SECOND STRAIGHT WEEKPrior to taking a break for finals, the UCSD women's track and field team took first place at the San Diego Collegiate Challenge. It was the second weekend in a row that UCSD's women won a meet. The women finished with 216.5 points, allowing them to finish ahead of crosstown foes San Diego State (205), as well as six other competing schools. The men's team also had an impressive showing, finishing second among five squads with a total of 201 points, right behind first-place Navy (213).

TRITON WOMEN WINNERS AS FIRST-TIME ALL-CAL HOSTS In Triton Track & Field Stadium's first turn as host of the All-Cal Championships after previously being held in Irvine, the UCSD women (221 points) earned their first title over Division I fellow UC system schools UC Santa Barbara (189), UC Irvine (122) and UC Riverside (76) since back-to-back successes in 2008 and 2009. The Triton men (179) placed second behind UCSB (214). UCSD women won six of the 19 events, with the men adding five first-place efforts. In his 2014 debut, Nash Howe earned the lone automatic NCAA qualifier among Triton competitors, already booking his trip to Michigan in May with a first-place javelin toss of 218'10". Sophomore Haley Libuit won the javelin on the women's side with her first career provisional mark of a personal-best 135'2". Carlos Bojorquez (1500), Mario Flores (3000 Steeple) and Chantia Justice (triple jump) also turned in provisionals.

WASHED OUT IN WEEK TWO UCSD was supposed to compete in its second meet of the 2014 season on Saturday, March 1, but the Pomona Preview, co-hosted by Cal Poly Pomona and Mt. San Antonio College at Mt. SAC in Walnut, was cancelled due to inclement weather.

ROSSI RELAYS REVIEW UCSD had a strong showing at the Rossi Relays on Saturday, Feb. 22. Among many notable performances were three Tritons who became provisional qualifiers for the NCAA Championships. Returners Chantia Justice and Kristin Sato finished 2-3 in the triple jump with marks of 38'7.5" and 38'6.75", respectively. Junior newcomer Anthony Capitulo took first place in the javelin, throwing a distance of 197'6", putting him at No. 5 on the program's all-time list. The only other individual first-place finish for the Tritons was by true freshman Markus Woods, who clocked in at 55.89 in the 400 hurdles.

MARQUEE HOME SCHEDULE UCSD hosts five meets at Triton Track & Field Stadium in La Jolla in 2014. Headlining the home schedule are the top two meets on the Tritons' annual calendar in the lead-up to the NCAA Championships, those being the Cal-Nevada Collegiate Championships, April 4-5, and the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) Championships, May 1-3. This will mark the second straight year that UCSD hosts one of the premier college track and field events on the West Coast in the Cal-Nevada Championships. La Jolla awaits the CCAA meet for the first time since 2010.

HOWE TO THROW YOUR JAVELINFor the sixth season in a row, the Triton men's javelin contingent will be led by a student-athlete with the last name of Howe. Nash Howe comes off of his All-America sophomore campaign as the seventh-place finisher at his first national meet and first-time champion at the conference level. He took over as the CCAA javelin champ for his older brother, Nick Howe, now in his second year as a volunteer assistant coach on the UCSD staff while he continues to train on campus toward an Olympic run for Rio 2016. Nick was a two-time national champion, three-time All-American and four-time CCAA champion from 2009-12. He holds the school javelin record at 231'3", with Nash chasing his older brother in second at 229'3". The younger Howe made his season debut in La Jolla at the All-Cal Championships on March 8, and immediately booked a second straight trip to the NCAA Championships with an automatic qualifier of 218'10". The Triton coaching staff is also preparing him for beyond, looking ahead to the USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Sacramento, June 26-29.

SPEEDY SABRINASabrina Pimentel is in her junior season after two previous years of impressive performances. As a freshman, Pimentel achieved All-American status running the opening leg of the seventh-place 4x400 relay (3:45.17) after the Triton foursome ran to a school record-breaking time of 3:42.17 in prelims at the NCAA Championships, as well as becoming CCAA champion in the same event. Pimentel also put her name in the record books during her sophomore season (2013) in both the 400 and 800. With a time of 55.95, she garnered the third-fastest 400 in school history, and moved up to second on UCSD all-time top-10 list in the 800 (2:10.90). Her performance in the 800 qualified her for the NCAA Championsips where she finished ninth with a time of 2:13.35.

CLINT CLIMBING Senior Clint Rosser is coming off of an impressive junior season in the pole vault. In 2013, he won the pole vault at the Azusa Pacific Last Chance Qualifier, clearing a personal-best height of 16’3.5”. The mark, No. 3 all-time in program history, allowed the Westchester (Loyola HS) native to reach and compete in the NCAA Championships. Prior to that competition, Rosser earned the NCAA Elite 89 award for Division II men’s outdoor track and field for having the highest grade-point average (3.97 in environmental engineering) among athletes who made it to the NCAA Championships. He then moved 10 slots up form his No. 19 seed and narrowly missed out on becoming an All-American with a ninth-place showing (16'2.75").

SATO AND JUSTICE JUMPING TO THE TOP Junior Chantia Justice and sophomore Kristin Sato excel for the Tritons in the jumps. In the 2013 season, Justice finished in the top-8 for both the high jump and the triple jump at the CCAA Championships. At the 2012 All-Cal Championships, Justice reached a mark of 5'1" in the high jump, giving her a fourth-place finish. During her freshman campaign, Sato had an impressive year, particularly in the long jump and the triple jump. At the CCAA Championships, Sato finished third in the long jump (17'9.4") and first in the triple jump (39'5.2"), contributing to her CCAA Freshman of the Year award. Sato's mark in the triple jump also qualified her for the NCAA Championships, where she finished 18th overall (38'8.75").

ROSE TO THE OCCASION Junior sprinter Keith Rose is the school record-holder in both the 100 and 200 meters, and the reigning CCAA champion in the 100. He placed third in the 200 last season and led off the third-place 4x400 relay. Rose has broken the school mark in both individual sprints twice each. He broke the 100 standard in both prelims (10.71) and finals (10.62) at the 2013 CCAA Championships in Turlock last May. Rose first took over the 200 mark as a freshman (21.59) and lowered it in prelims (21.57) at the 2013 CCAA meet. He is the younger brother of former Triton All-American Jacqueline Rose (2009-12).

THREE ALL-AMERICANS UCSD has three All-Americans on its 2014 roster. Junior Nash Howe earned All-America honors with a seventh-place finish in the javelin a year ago in his debut at the NCAA Division II Championships. Junior Sabrina Pimentel and senior Lauren Irish are All-Americans from the 2012 season, when they made up half of UCSD's seventh-place 4x400 relay. Pimentel competed at the 2013 NCAA Championships as well, in the 800 meters. Remaining returners who made the 2013 NCAA field are senior pole vaulter Clint Rosser and sophomore Kristin Sato, the 2013 CCAA Freshman of the Year, in the triple jump. Pimentel and Rosser both fell narrowly short of All-America status with ninth-place finishes in their respective events.

RECENT CCAA HISTORY UCSD is coming off of a fourth consecutive second-place finish at the CCAA Championships on the women's side, all behind Chico State. The Triton men have produced three successive third-place efforts, with Chico State now the 10-time defending league champion. UCSD was 11.33 points back of second-place Cal Poly Pomona in Turlock in 2013. Triton Track & Field Stadium will serve as host of the 2014 CCAA Championships. The Triton men and women both placed second behind Chico State the last time the meet was held in La Jolla in 2010. That runner-up showing, by a mere 2.83 points (212.33-209.5), snapped a run of five consecutive conference titles for the UCSD women.

CCAA FRESHMEN OF THE YEARUCSD swept the men's and women's CCAA Freshman of the Year awards a year ago, with rookie field standouts Sean Cook and Kristin Sato earning the distinctions. Sato won the triple jump and placed third in the long jump, while Cook was second in the long jump, sixth in the high jump and 11th in the triple jump. Sato went on to warrant a late addition to the NCAA field, where she placed 18th at her first nationals in the triple jump.

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UP NEXT After this weekend's Cal-Nevada Championships, the UCSD track and field teams will be splitting up between Tempe, Ariz., and Claremont. A portion of the Tritons will be traveling to Tempe for the Sun Angel Classic at Arizona State University's Sun Angel Track Stadium. This meet begins on Friday, April 11 at 10 a.m. and will continue through Saturday, April 12. Another portion of the Tritons will be in Claremont for the Pomona-Pitzer Invitational at Strehle Track on Pomona College. This meet will be on Saturday, April 12 starting at 10 a.m.